Partnerships play an important role in helping us green our city.
We partner with organisations, local government and businesses to deliver healthier, happier and more resilient communities by making greener places and great public spaces.
Our partnerships are greening Sydney by:
Supporting tree-planting at public places, including schools and hospitals.
Encouraging innovative tree-planting practices to enhance urban tree canopy.
Helping inspire individuals to play a part and plant trees in their own backyard.
Bringing community together at tree-planting events.
Celebrating tree-planting contributions from private organisations.
Championing cross-government collaboration to green Greater Sydney.
Partnership programs
We have partnered with Landcare NSW, Greening Australia, Planet Ark, IndigiGrow and Bunnings Warehouse to help increase the tree canopy and green cover across Greater Sydney.
Programs made possible by working together:
- Nature in Cities, Sydney – combining the Cooling the Schools and Rewilding Sydney programs - in partnership with Greening Australia.
- Creating Canopies in partnership with Landcare NSW.
- Proud category partner of Planet Ark’s National Tree Day since 2020.
- Free tree giveaway.
Our partners
We’re proud to partner with great organisations to create a greener, more sustainable city for all.
The partnership with Landcare NSW and Greater Sydney Landcare will deliver 300,000 trees over 2 projects between 2020 and 2025 in areas of Greater Sydney with less than 30% canopy cover.
The project has just planted its 200,000th tree and is on track to grow this number to 300,000 by the end of next year. Track the Creating Canopies plantings across Greater Sydney.
The partnership with Greening Australia involves working with schools and communities to plant 200,000 trees by the end of 2025 through the Nature in Cities, Sydney project, which is made up of:
- a Rewilding Sydney program that will create a network of biodiverse, cooling corridors on public and private land across Greater Sydney
- the continuation of the Cooling the Schools program, by working with students and teachers to establish native gardens with a shade focus in primary and secondary schools in the Greater Sydney Region, with the support of the Department of Education.
The Cooling the Schools program delivered 87,000 trees across parks, schools and community spaces across Greater Sydney from 2020 to 2022.
We are proud to be a Category Partner of Planet Ark's National Tree Day since 2020. This sponsorship recognises the close alignment between our objectives and those of the most recognised community tree-planting event in Australia.
In 2021 and 2022, we proudly partnered with IndigiGrow – an all - Aboriginal owned, staffed and run nursery in La Perouse for our free tree giveaway. IndigiGrow grows local native plants and bushfoods, which creates training and employment opportunities for young Aboriginal staff and provides a place for the community to connect with cultural knowledge.
Our partnership with IndigiGrow brought trees to 4,000 households in Greater Sydney.
In 2020 to 2022, we collaborated with Bunnings for our free tree giveaway, making free trees available to more than 25,000 households in Greater Sydney. The free tree giveaway helped inspire individuals to plant more trees in their own backyard to create more shade and cooler suburbs for everyone.
Greening milestones
Explore our partnership initiatives and see how we're creating a greener, more sustainable environment for everyone.
Cooler schools
Greening Australia’s Cooling the Schools Program has reached a major milestone – 200 schools now benefit from cooler, greener outdoor spaces for learning and play.
Students and teachers have transformed their schoolyards into vibrant outdoor classrooms by planting over 34,800 native trees and plants.
This initiative not only cools urban areas but also educates students about the environmental and cultural benefits of planting native trees, urban cooling and biodiversity.
Erskine Park High School is the 200th school to participate in the program. Students celebrated the milestone with a memorable morning of learning, tree planting and contributing to a greener future.
Trees planted with Landcare
In September 2024, at an event at Campbelltown Hospital, Landcare NSW celebrated the planting of over 200,000 trees since our partnership began in 2020.
Trees that provide canopy – such as eucalypts – were planted, as well as a wide variety of shrubs to promote biodiversity by attracting insects and native birdlife.
The Creating Canopies program is designed to ensure the trees planted by diverse communities throughout the program will continue to grow and create shade and important habitat for wildlife into the future.
Partnership opportunities
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